ITALY - The Berlusconi government has tabled a bill to equalise the pension age of men and women, following legal action initiated by the European Commission over the country's "discriminatory" provisions on pension age.
The bill will gradually raise the pension age of women employed in the public sector from 60 to 65. From 2010, the pension age of public sector women employees will increase to 61, and then it will...
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